I came to ESO from Warframe where we had pretty much unlimited inventory capacity. Cause of that experience, I never bought ESO+ cause I felt like I'd be getting robbed. I spent way more money on Warframe cause it felt good to support a company that wasn't trying to get their hand in my wallet all the time. I have just learned to live with ESO, the inventory management simulator. I feel bad for the ESO+'ers. Yall should get unlimited inventory for the money you spend.
True the bag is the only real benefit, but you need to take into account that you also get "1650 crowns per month" That and reduced crown purchases, means you're really just dedicating buying 1500 crowns a month to unlock all the DLCs. BUT bag space and inventory management I have seen drive away many friends with its frustrations, even friends that would pay to unlock the crafting bag, Many free-to-play players are willing to even spend more than 15$ a month (but more like every few months) they just want to do it on their own terms and not be locked into a subscription.
@William Murphy If you are a new player I suppose you can use the crowns you get from ESO+ to buy the DLC you don't yet have because having ESO+ just means you are renting DLC access. Once your subscription ends, you lose access unless you bought the DLC. What's worse is the membership doesn't include new chapters. You still have to buy those on top of what you're already paying. Also crown prices and what you can buy with them is a lil crazy. 80 bucks or more for a house that has limited capacity. Umm...no thanks. Finally, all the bugs n such would infuriate me that much more if I was paying monthly. It's pretty much a scam in my eyes but that's up to each individual to decide what value means to them.
@@ericw9702 Woah. What? I liked that game a lot. I just ran out of stuff to do. Got to the point where I could solo the 3 Eidolons and go back to kill a 4th in a single night cycle (45 minutes). Teams of 4 were struggling to do that sometimes.
@@txchainsaw8907 I had a rhino/rubico build that was awesome for that but couldn't quite solo them. I stopped playing after the whatever the ice planet update was...cant remember.
These are *100%* helpful. One thing I would also recommend is creating a "mule" guild (you do need to get like ≈10 players/friends to join) but once accomplished you will have a guild bank that will greatly help with storage. "The be ready for free weekends to dump all your saved crafting mats" is a must to know for starting players even if it only happens like once or twice a year.
Curious, if you use this method and then people leave the mule guild do you still have access to guild storage? Or do you have to maintain a certain amount of people to keep a guild bank?
@@UKChutz just invite a bunch of people during free eso plus and other free events. go to the first zones and walk around youll find a ton of people who will join and then quit the game later without leaving
There are also free-to-play weeks where you can just make up 10 dummy email accounts then set up 10 dummy accounts yourself and make your own guilds. I went a step further and bought 10 super cheap base game keys and set up 10 alt accounts and made 5 guilds for the bank space. So I get 2500 unbound storage with the guild banks and the storage for all the toons and account bank spots as well.
@@UKChutz yes you keep them in the guild and keep the guild bank even if they stop playing. but you do need to keep 10 people in the guild even if they quit they will stay in your guild. Edit: yeah lol what they said.
I've been playing ESO without ESO+ since around Thieves Guild's release, and the key thing to have is just an inventory plan. My plan follows what was mentioned in the video, and I'll say that nowadays I've picked up the assistants (Merchant, Banker, Deconstruction) and they're gamechangers! If y'all want to do this long-term and don't mind spending some crowns, I highly recommend picking them up! Also try to deconstruct or sell your items ASAP because you never know when a really nice drop will happen and you find your inventory full so you have to waste time deleting an item that you could've just not picked up in the first place (I'm looking at you, "Foul Hide".) Overall it's very manageable but you have to play smart 🦊
I've been playing for years, only had eso plus a few months max and it's no problem at all. Make a guild, invite random people from a beginner zone and majority of them quit.... Alls you need is 10 players in your guild ( preferably that have quit ) and you unlock 500 slots! Max your bank and inventory slots asap. Research and deconstruct all items you don't need to avoid hoarding, sell everything you don't physically need (for materials i do this once i get a full stack) i have a tonne of money now and great equipment just by simply playing the game. I spend real money on DLC rather than eso plus so i can go wherever and do whatever the same as everyone else, waiting for a good deal like half price for things comes more often than you may think. I used to store spare equipment on alt accounts, but now you can rebuild equipment items you've bound to your account i just deconstructed it all and will build what i want when i want it.
Thanks for the video and tips - My brother, son, and I just picked up the base game last week. It's already turned into an inventory management simulator. We've turned to a life of petty crime to buy bank and bag space, so knowing about free weekends is super helpful. Thanks again!
@@spiffdaddy Hahaha we ended up losing interest once we realized the level scaling made the game so easy and dull that we felt stupid for bothering to move out of damage mechanics. It was more fun as a pickpocketing simulator where we fought and ran from the law together, albeit without enough bag space. :D
@@brianhurd3355 overland is easy asf, you should try dungeons, trials, arenas, infinite archive or pvp. Many of them are from base game, and could be challenging for the hm or trifectas.
I would say that one more tip is to get into a trading guild. You can sell off excess stacks of materials for good amounts of gold and save up towards buying crowns through a reputable guild or server like World Crown Exchange (There is always a risk of being scammed in this, of course, but I've found it worthwhile to buy up DLCs with gold, etc.). This allows you to get access to some more valuable farming areas for motifs and additional game features.
I just started ESO for the first time 4 hours ago, after watching about 5 hours of your videos at work beforehand and I’m really glad I did. Thanks my dude, subscribed
I just use bankspace for materials, 1-2 characters for storing most useful set items of gold quality, chests for some furniture and fragments. All other sets i just deconstruct for materials, because you can always reconstruct what you need using transmute station. So, i just collect materials in the bank for 6 months, refill craftbag every eso plus trial, and feel ok with how it works. The only pain is the limit on transmute crystals, 500 isn’t much really. Oh, and furniture limits are also harsh. That’s all😅
Always love your videos, very informative! I run 2 accounts, 1 with plus, the other without. ATM neither have plus ( waiting to get my yearly with a work bonus). Anyway a couple things you didnt mention ( though skirted them.. I watched twice because of spousal aggro) * you can increase bank slots ( at the bank, not assistant bankers) * you can increase each character slots TWO ways , the one you mentioned, by riding capacity, the other is with the Pack Merchant. ( this one I'd recommend doing each character in a rotation. Character 1, then 2, then 3, etc then back to character 1.. because the price gets exponentially higher.) 10 slots each purchase. * you can buy storage trunks 3 ways: crown store, Rollis, and with Telvar in Imperial City. ( I know what some are thinking.. I dont PvP.. I RP on my main but EU, i play on NA mostly. Point? Just with log in rewards and only going to IC during PvP events, my EU side has 1.5mil Telvar.. mostly from log in rewards.) * when a house is available through Event tickets or promotions ( like the Antiquities was) get them!! Even if you dont house, you'll end up with stuff you need to put somewhere. Sorry that's a long read... would take less time to say.
Timely video! I’m letting my ESO+ expire in two days after 6 months of using it. Would like to focus on some other games (Elden Ring, Last of Us, etc.) for a while. But great suggestion to keep track of the ESO+ weeks so I can restock my craft bag… I only thought you could buy the storage chests with writ vouchers, but I’ll look again to see if they can be bought with game gold.
Very informative! I think the most crucial element to survive without esoplus is discipline. I’m a hoarder and don’t like to play a logistic simulation game. I open each and every bag, sack, and autoloot all. While the last tip with free weekends help a lot, it still only goes so far. So, my first two months after a long hiatus was without esoplus. But then I got exhausted from all the inventory juggling. I know I could do without, but I simply lack the discipline
Eso+ is great, but I'd love to see a furniture bag, treasure map bag, and a survey bag... I think this would alleviate a lot of issues with bank space and sell more eso+ subscriptions!
tbh, it's harder to deal with bag/bank management without eso plus but if you have the mindset of just...not hoarding things it's not too bad. My alt accounts don't have plus.
I play this game on consol, i just return after more or less a year. So I highly highly appreciated this type of videos/tips. Great job, and thanks for the tips. 😉
I've been playing ESO for 5 years, for 2 years I paid for ESO PLUS and it was really nice to have it, so I canceled the PLUS and I thought it would be impossible to play ESO without the PLUS but I was wrong, it's totally possible to play without the ESO PLUS.
If you have ESO Plus for 2 years you have more than enough time to not only experience all of the DLCs but also save enough Crowns to buy them. When you start out your only chance of getting them without Plus or buying crowns is earning a shitton of gold to buy crowns from others.
I usually use the ESO Plus free trial that we get occasionally and fill up my crafting bag as much as possible during those days :D Edit: Oh, you already mentioned that.
I already paid for the game, i have absolutely no intention of paying for any kind of "subscribtion". I stick to questing, i don't care about anything else, everything else other than questing is deliberately designed to waste your time, crafting especially. The only reason i bought it it's because it's Elder Scrolls and i love Elder Scrolls, otherwise i wouldn't be caught dead playing any mmo, i despise them
I know this vid is a year old, but thank you for the advice. Just picked up ESO as a treat for myself (bought standard instead of an upgraded version, so now it's just base game + Morrowind, woops lol) but financially, I just can't justify upgrading more or a monthly sub. Sometimes I feel like breaking down and just "doing it" but I remember that I just can't (as silly as it sounds). It sucks having to work around playing games and money, but I see lots of people here who manage to do it, so I'm hoping it won't make me feel like quitting. :) Thank you again! I feel way better about my decision.
Try Personnal Assistant add-on with Smarter Auto-loot so it will pick only what you need, and put as junk what you don't (after deconstruct for example) and sell them auto as soon as your speak to a merchant, it can also store item you want to keep direclty on the bank just by speaking to it, very helpful. The thing is, you don't need that much thing for craft unless you want to deep dive on craft (then rip). Take time to get some gold to max out bank and bag don't forget horse and it will be way enough tbh. I don;t use eso+ either, and only play/have one char ^^
Thanks for the tips, I've been playing this for a few years but I'm from Argentina and they recently dollarized Steam prices and the price of ESO plus is out of my possibilities. Before the price was quite affordable and I had it from the beginning so now I'm basically learning to play again haha
Thank you for making this video. It helped me a lot because I wasn’t able to buy ESO+. I live in japan and I started playing ESO with XBOX and really like it a lot, but xbox store won’t let me subscribe to ESO+ because I don’t have a credit card with a US address. (I tried to pay with xbox gift card but the store requires me to enter a backup payment plan, which required a valid US credit card)
I searched so many reviews about this ESO Plus, I think your video are the best in explaning things. I almost give up either should I buy the game on Steam or not because of the Plus system that kinda Pay To Win. But I decided to buy it when Steam summer sale begins. 😆
Been playing ESO without plus since launch and my only issue has been inventory space. Especially with crafting materials. Other than that, it has been very playable without it.
Let's face it for a moderatly serious player is nearly impossible to live witout the bag. And yes you can pass 1/5 of your playtime doing inventory managment good luck with it ^^
The worst thing a game can do is create a problem and then sell you the solution. Swaping character loading screens, traveling to bank locations with them back and fort to the bag upgrades and stablemasters spending gold to increase bag space and training riding skill to increase inventory slots slowly over time throughout the months is not a fun "free to play" gameplay option for a game you already had to buy so it is not free to begin with. These workarounds are nice to know, but that's what they are, designed specifically to waste player's time so they get ESO+. As a non ESO+ player I am happy to own portable kitty cats merchant and banker, and every chapter and DLC, and while it reduced the pressure and made game more enjoyable, I can still feel the pressure of the craftbag. And on top of that DLCs are per server so they want me to pay again for them if I want to play their content with NA friends. I like ESO, I'd like to pay for real stuff, and I would like it more if it could get rid of this awful predatory business model. And now I also like this channel for looking out for us non ESO+ population. Thank you for this video, and thank you for that "Taunt Everything" video with two handed templar, I tried it and it's so much fun! Looking forward to what else can I learn from you. Sub from me. 💙
Using inventory management as an annoyance to provoke eso plus purchases pisses me off to no end. Almost as much as $15 dollar armory slots that are for a SINGLE character. I like eso and play with friends but inventory management and the sheer greed of armory slots keep me from fully diving in.
If i get ESO Plus and then i stop using it, do i keep the content i got like a membership in the thieves guild and some more dlc stuff or i automatically lose all of that including the aditional skills and maps?
This is one of the reasons why i dont play this game any longer. I dont support that you have to pay for a subscription only to have the convinience with the umlimited inventory.
Keep in mind using mules is all good but add something to the alt character. Making em a crafter, treasure hunter etc. This way you can build gold, mats, etc with that alt. There is no such thing as a mule unless you don't fill the character out.
Simple, don't play. I be upfront the game had me salty as heck trying to play I got to about champion 325 before I stopped. The number of convenience items and conve iences sold to you when I bought the game at 60$ at launch. It irked me. Paid 60$ to have to buy bank space, to pay a sub for a craft bag, for food. For scrolls, for fashion items. For inventory space. It frustrated the heck out of me. I'd have rather ed a wow style subscription without all the nickel and diming.
been playing for 2 weeks. already drop 200+$ on this game. now im at the point i will neither go + or quit. biggest problem is 2 of my friends that started the game with me both quit because of this bag bs, feel so bad to trash so many stuff that u know u might need later only to find out u do indeed need them
A question from a noob, Skyrim the best mod for me added voice to all notes and books you could find in the world. Is there anything like that for eso?
I do agree with this game being very annoying when it relates to inventory space UNLESS you pay for eso plus every month. other the that I very much enjoy eso, been playing eight yrs.
How can a video game company charge its players a subscription fee and not allow them to have a more consequent inventory? It's the only mmo to do this kind of thing.
One of the biggest eso scam has to be eso+. The only useful thing here is the crap bag. They say it’s optional but it’s really forceful when every move you make in game gives you crafting mats which takes up all your inventory space in minutes. Other than that, what? DLC access that is no longer useful once you’ve already purchased everything? double bank space? Little to nothing Gold and exp bonus? Players should be getting way more than what is being offered. You could have just played subscription based mmos like wow and ffxiv. The only thing that kept me in the game is my love for the tes franchise in general. My 3 months eso+ sub has just expired. I’m done.
it sounds like a problem caused by design and thats an absolutely no-go. waisting time to sorting inventory and to reshift materials into other material is also not respecting the time i have as a player... what else am i missing?
Best to get bank henchi, or special collectible, keep crafting loot there. Don't pick up all food, but flour and inssa glass should be kept. Best to loot urns rather than barrels, since urns sometimes have motiff's but barrels usually have rice or seaweed with my luck. Watch out for white crafting items that are unusual or rare, you may want to save or at least stack in a storage tote. You can get storage containers for home from tel var stones or writs, writs seem faster way, but not cheap. In a Dungeon DO NOT auto loot everything, be selective and NOTICE: each dungeon may have a grey item trash around 9gold, but they stack so you may want to keep it till the end of the dungeon, and sell to merchant companion if you have to collect anything at the end. People leave shortly after dungeon, but you can ask someone to stay or pull out merchant henchi and let people know, so they can sell a bit also.
Can you do some video about builds, i think you miss this topic in last begginer video. It be nice to some tips where you find real/working builds. Like for solo , dungeons/trials and other stuff like stealing
Watch MalcolM's video titled "The Elder Scrolls Online - Bundles & Purchase Options" for a guide and explanation on how it works. ESO is split into 3 categories 1) Base Game 2) Chapter 3) DLC The base game of ESO (which comes with any version of the game) lets you have access to all of the original zones released in 2014 + Craglorn + Imperial City DLC + the first chapter (Morrowind) If you buy the latest (chapter deluxe edition?) of the game then it lets you access the base game and gives you access to all currently made chapters (as of february 2023 that includes Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, Greymoor, Blackwood, High Isle) While you have ESO+ it gives you access to every DLC and every chapter apart from the latest chapter (latest chapter currently is High Isle) (as of february 2023 DLC includes Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Shadow of the Hist, Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, Dragon Bones, Wolfhunter, Murkmire, Wrathstone, Scalebreaker, Dragonhold, Harrowstorm, Stonethorn, Markarth, Flames of Ambition, Waking Flame, Deadlands, Ascending Tide, Lost Depths, Firesong) EDIT: You can also purchase individual DLC as an alternative to paying for ESO+. This is what I personally did and I'm happy with this route.
It's extremely hard without plus. Can't make money. Can't make money your gear is shit, can't store potions. You can play it but it starts to suck really quick. I played for 6 years and had 9 characters. They were full. Horses were full, chests were full and still needed space for every set I needed. Plus is a must if you play regularly.
Maybe u dont play game, its b2p, p2p and p2w simunteusljy? Ofc its gr8 game, i have lot of fun playing, but its have no sense. Make tutorial how get best gear without buying dlc or eso+.
The fact that a guide like this even needs to exist should say how truly optional ESO+ actually is Zen, you have GOT to stop trying to get the best of both mobile AND actual MMOs from this game That is what is going to be the real death of this game
Just only play cyrodiil, zos will never care that you dont give them money, and you wont need craft bag because zos doesnt care about adding anything to pvp :>
to be honest don't download the game even if it is free if you don't have the DLCs basically you will not play the game you will not have anything to do in the game you cannot follow any guides you cannot follow anything to do and no one can tell me else the video is helpful yes but for me it is just naive for people to play the game and the game tell you if you wanted to play it you need to pay money 100% you will need to pay to get the DLCs and no one can tell you else thank you for the video it is actually good video
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How many times will I say ESO Plus?
So you basically did a guide on how I play Everyday ever since I first got ESO
I came to ESO from Warframe where we had pretty much unlimited inventory capacity. Cause of that experience, I never bought ESO+ cause I felt like I'd be getting robbed. I spent way more money on Warframe cause it felt good to support a company that wasn't trying to get their hand in my wallet all the time. I have just learned to live with ESO, the inventory management simulator.
I feel bad for the ESO+'ers. Yall should get unlimited inventory for the money you spend.
True the bag is the only real benefit, but you need to take into account that you also get "1650 crowns per month"
That and reduced crown purchases, means you're really just dedicating buying 1500 crowns a month to unlock all the DLCs. BUT bag space and inventory management I have seen drive away many friends with its frustrations, even friends that would pay to unlock the crafting bag,
Many free-to-play players are willing to even spend more than 15$ a month (but more like every few months) they just want to do it on their own terms and not be locked into a subscription.
@William Murphy If you are a new player I suppose you can use the crowns you get from ESO+ to buy the DLC you don't yet have because having ESO+ just means you are renting DLC access. Once your subscription ends, you lose access unless you bought the DLC. What's worse is the membership doesn't include new chapters. You still have to buy those on top of what you're already paying. Also crown prices and what you can buy with them is a lil crazy. 80 bucks or more for a house that has limited capacity. Umm...no thanks. Finally, all the bugs n such would infuriate me that much more if I was paying monthly. It's pretty much a scam in my eyes but that's up to each individual to decide what value means to them.
I liked Warframe.....until it got too big. New places with currency that only works there...etc. Dunno, just became too much IMO.
@@ericw9702 Woah. What? I liked that game a lot. I just ran out of stuff to do. Got to the point where I could solo the 3 Eidolons and go back to kill a 4th in a single night cycle (45 minutes). Teams of 4 were struggling to do that sometimes.
@@txchainsaw8907 I had a rhino/rubico build that was awesome for that but couldn't quite solo them. I stopped playing after the whatever the ice planet update was...cant remember.
These are *100%* helpful. One thing I would also recommend is creating a "mule" guild (you do need to get like ≈10 players/friends to join) but once accomplished you will have a guild bank that will greatly help with storage.
"The be ready for free weekends to dump all your saved crafting mats" is a must to know for starting players even if it only happens like once or twice a year.
Curious, if you use this method and then people leave the mule guild do you still have access to guild storage? Or do you have to maintain a certain amount of people to keep a guild bank?
@@UKChutz just invite a bunch of people during free eso plus and other free events. go to the first zones and walk around youll find a ton of people who will join and then quit the game later without leaving
@@carlpvnsem2875 awesome, thank you, I actually pay for ESO plus atm but knowing I could play without it I may give it a try without!
There are also free-to-play weeks where you can just make up 10 dummy email accounts then set up 10 dummy accounts yourself and make your own guilds. I went a step further and bought 10 super cheap base game keys and set up 10 alt accounts and made 5 guilds for the bank space. So I get 2500 unbound storage with the guild banks and the storage for all the toons and account bank spots as well.
@@UKChutz yes you keep them in the guild and keep the guild bank even if they stop playing. but you do need to keep 10 people in the guild even if they quit they will stay in your guild.
Edit: yeah lol what they said.
I've been playing ESO without ESO+ since around Thieves Guild's release, and the key thing to have is just an inventory plan.
My plan follows what was mentioned in the video, and I'll say that nowadays I've picked up the assistants (Merchant, Banker, Deconstruction) and they're gamechangers!
If y'all want to do this long-term and don't mind spending some crowns, I highly recommend picking them up!
Also try to deconstruct or sell your items ASAP because you never know when a really nice drop will happen and you find your inventory full so you have to waste time deleting an item that you could've just not picked up in the first place (I'm looking at you, "Foul Hide".)
Overall it's very manageable but you have to play smart 🦊
Foul hide lmaaoooo. Just started playing thought that was so funny like why can I even pick this up 😂 I'm sure it can be used somehow tho
I've been playing for years, only had eso plus a few months max and it's no problem at all. Make a guild, invite random people from a beginner zone and majority of them quit.... Alls you need is 10 players in your guild ( preferably that have quit ) and you unlock 500 slots! Max your bank and inventory slots asap. Research and deconstruct all items you don't need to avoid hoarding, sell everything you don't physically need (for materials i do this once i get a full stack) i have a tonne of money now and great equipment just by simply playing the game. I spend real money on DLC rather than eso plus so i can go wherever and do whatever the same as everyone else, waiting for a good deal like half price for things comes more often than you may think. I used to store spare equipment on alt accounts, but now you can rebuild equipment items you've bound to your account i just deconstructed it all and will build what i want when i want it.
Thanks for the video and tips - My brother, son, and I just picked up the base game last week. It's already turned into an inventory management simulator.
We've turned to a life of petty crime to buy bank and bag space, so knowing about free weekends is super helpful. Thanks again!
Did yall buy upgrade bags now lol
@@spiffdaddy Hahaha we ended up losing interest once we realized the level scaling made the game so easy and dull that we felt stupid for bothering to move out of damage mechanics. It was more fun as a pickpocketing simulator where we fought and ran from the law together, albeit without enough bag space. :D
@@brianhurd3355 overland is easy asf, you should try dungeons, trials, arenas, infinite archive or pvp. Many of them are from base game, and could be challenging for the hm or trifectas.
Man I've been playing vanilla eso without eso plus for 3 years,
Love your content by the way , great work
That is truly impressive.
I would say that one more tip is to get into a trading guild. You can sell off excess stacks of materials for good amounts of gold and save up towards buying crowns through a reputable guild or server like World Crown Exchange (There is always a risk of being scammed in this, of course, but I've found it worthwhile to buy up DLCs with gold, etc.). This allows you to get access to some more valuable farming areas for motifs and additional game features.
I just started ESO for the first time 4 hours ago, after watching about 5 hours of your videos at work beforehand and I’m really glad I did. Thanks my dude, subscribed
I just use bankspace for materials, 1-2 characters for storing most useful set items of gold quality, chests for some furniture and fragments. All other sets i just deconstruct for materials, because you can always reconstruct what you need using transmute station. So, i just collect materials in the bank for 6 months, refill craftbag every eso plus trial, and feel ok with how it works. The only pain is the limit on transmute crystals, 500 isn’t much really. Oh, and furniture limits are also harsh. That’s all😅
Always love your videos, very informative!
I run 2 accounts, 1 with plus, the other without. ATM neither have plus ( waiting to get my yearly with a work bonus).
Anyway a couple things you didnt mention ( though skirted them.. I watched twice because of spousal aggro)
* you can increase bank slots ( at the bank, not assistant bankers)
* you can increase each character slots TWO ways , the one you mentioned, by riding capacity, the other is with the Pack Merchant. ( this one I'd recommend doing each character in a rotation. Character 1, then 2, then 3, etc then back to character 1.. because the price gets exponentially higher.) 10 slots each purchase.
* you can buy storage trunks 3 ways: crown store, Rollis, and with Telvar in Imperial City. ( I know what some are thinking.. I dont PvP.. I RP on my main but EU, i play on NA mostly. Point? Just with log in rewards and only going to IC during PvP events, my EU side has 1.5mil Telvar.. mostly from log in rewards.)
* when a house is available through Event tickets or promotions
( like the Antiquities was) get them!! Even if you dont house, you'll end up with stuff you need to put somewhere.
Sorry that's a long read... would take less time to say.
Was thinking of getting this game but it seems like alot of work for a little fun, thanks for helping me. Now I won't waste my money buying the game.
Dodged a huge bullet there
Timely video! I’m letting my ESO+ expire in two days after 6 months of using it. Would like to focus on some other games (Elden Ring, Last of Us, etc.) for a while. But great suggestion to keep track of the ESO+ weeks so I can restock my craft bag… I only thought you could buy the storage chests with writ vouchers, but I’ll look again to see if they can be bought with game gold.
Tip. If you go to second hand game dealers you can find ESO expansions for a few dollars.
Very informative! I think the most crucial element to survive without esoplus is discipline. I’m a hoarder and don’t like to play a logistic simulation game. I open each and every bag, sack, and autoloot all. While the last tip with free weekends help a lot, it still only goes so far.
So, my first two months after a long hiatus was without esoplus. But then I got exhausted from all the inventory juggling.
I know I could do without, but I simply lack the discipline
I miss your ESO videos. You had a different angle than the meta videos. Thanks.
Eso+ is great, but I'd love to see a furniture bag, treasure map bag, and a survey bag... I think this would alleviate a lot of issues with bank space and sell more eso+ subscriptions!
tbh, it's harder to deal with bag/bank management without eso plus but if you have the mindset of just...not hoarding things it's not too bad. My alt accounts don't have plus.
I play this game on consol, i just return after more or less a year. So I highly highly appreciated this type of videos/tips. Great job, and thanks for the tips. 😉
I've been playing ESO for 5 years, for 2 years I paid for ESO PLUS and it was really nice to have it, so I canceled the PLUS and I thought it would be impossible to play ESO without the PLUS but I was wrong, it's totally possible to play without the ESO PLUS.
A lot harder when you're just starting out
If you have ESO Plus for 2 years you have more than enough time to not only experience all of the DLCs but also save enough Crowns to buy them. When you start out your only chance of getting them without Plus or buying crowns is earning a shitton of gold to buy crowns from others.
@@zoraity3548 Yes you are right! Today I buy eso's DLCs with the game's own gold.
@@acido7572 I plan to do the same but i'm a really low level and still far to get to a point to do that, but surely one day i will be able to aswell
I usually use the ESO Plus free trial that we get occasionally and fill up my crafting bag as much as possible during those days :D
Edit: Oh, you already mentioned that.
Same here :D
how often do they give free ESO+ trials?
I already paid for the game, i have absolutely no intention of paying for any kind of "subscribtion".
I stick to questing, i don't care about anything else, everything else other than questing is deliberately designed to waste your time, crafting especially.
The only reason i bought it it's because it's Elder Scrolls and i love Elder Scrolls, otherwise i wouldn't be caught dead playing any mmo, i despise them
I have eso plus and i still suffer storage issues
I know this vid is a year old, but thank you for the advice. Just picked up ESO as a treat for myself (bought standard instead of an upgraded version, so now it's just base game + Morrowind, woops lol) but financially, I just can't justify upgrading more or a monthly sub. Sometimes I feel like breaking down and just "doing it" but I remember that I just can't (as silly as it sounds). It sucks having to work around playing games and money, but I see lots of people here who manage to do it, so I'm hoping it won't make me feel like quitting. :) Thank you again! I feel way better about my decision.
Try Personnal Assistant add-on with Smarter Auto-loot so it will pick only what you need, and put as junk what you don't (after deconstruct for example) and sell them auto as soon as your speak to a merchant, it can also store item you want to keep direclty on the bank just by speaking to it, very helpful.
The thing is, you don't need that much thing for craft unless you want to deep dive on craft (then rip).
Take time to get some gold to max out bank and bag don't forget horse and it will be way enough tbh.
I don;t use eso+ either, and only play/have one char ^^
Thanks for the tips, I've been playing this for a few years but I'm from Argentina and they recently dollarized Steam prices and the price of ESO plus is out of my possibilities. Before the price was quite affordable and I had it from the beginning so now I'm basically learning to play again haha
Thank you for making this video. It helped me a lot because I wasn’t able to buy ESO+. I live in japan and I started playing ESO with XBOX and really like it a lot, but xbox store won’t let me subscribe to ESO+ because I don’t have a credit card with a US address. (I tried to pay with xbox gift card but the store requires me to enter a backup payment plan, which required a valid US credit card)
This sounds really cool, it makes me feel like I only need to buy it like once or twice a year* if learn to manage my space and use the free days.
I searched so many reviews about this ESO Plus, I think your video are the best in explaning things. I almost give up either should I buy the game on Steam or not because of the Plus system that kinda Pay To Win. But I decided to buy it when Steam summer sale begins. 😆
Damn this is a game changer for me. Thanks!
Been playing ESO without plus since launch and my only issue has been inventory space. Especially with crafting materials. Other than that, it has been very playable without it.
the thing is, it's way easier to play ESO without ESO Plus when you are deeper into the game
if you are new, it's awful without it imo
Early game players, get a banker and a pet that increases inventory. It's almost like having ESO plus
25 likes 🤭 thanks for everything you left behind for newbies like me, best of luck going forward!
Let's face it for a moderatly serious player is nearly impossible to live witout the bag. And yes you can pass 1/5 of your playtime doing inventory managment good luck with it ^^
I have been playing for 11 days and I love ESO plus. I couldn’t play without it.
Housing storage is shared amongst all characters. So its +60 storage per account instead of +60 per character.
The worst thing a game can do is create a problem and then sell you the solution. Swaping character loading screens, traveling to bank locations with them back and fort to the bag upgrades and stablemasters spending gold to increase bag space and training riding skill to increase inventory slots slowly over time throughout the months is not a fun "free to play" gameplay option for a game you already had to buy so it is not free to begin with. These workarounds are nice to know, but that's what they are, designed specifically to waste player's time so they get ESO+.
As a non ESO+ player I am happy to own portable kitty cats merchant and banker, and every chapter and DLC, and while it reduced the pressure and made game more enjoyable, I can still feel the pressure of the craftbag. And on top of that DLCs are per server so they want me to pay again for them if I want to play their content with NA friends. I like ESO, I'd like to pay for real stuff, and I would like it more if it could get rid of this awful predatory business model.
And now I also like this channel for looking out for us non ESO+ population. Thank you for this video, and thank you for that "Taunt Everything" video with two handed templar, I tried it and it's so much fun! Looking forward to what else can I learn from you. Sub from me. 💙
Using inventory management as an annoyance to provoke eso plus purchases pisses me off to no end. Almost as much as $15 dollar armory slots that are for a SINGLE character. I like eso and play with friends but inventory management and the sheer greed of armory slots keep me from fully diving in.
If i get ESO Plus and then i stop using it, do i keep the content i got like a membership in the thieves guild and some more dlc stuff or i automatically lose all of that including the aditional skills and maps?
Yes you get to keep what you earn
This is one of the reasons why i dont play this game any longer. I dont support that you have to pay for a subscription only to have the convinience with the umlimited inventory.
I give up. This is not worth the hassle.
Really like this, it will help people out! It can be such a juggling act without eso plus, thanks for this!
solid guide for people who play across multiple platforms too - but dont want multiple subs!
Keep in mind using mules is all good but add something to the alt character. Making em a crafter, treasure hunter etc. This way you can build gold, mats, etc with that alt. There is no such thing as a mule unless you don't fill the character out.
@BrahWeGotThis-On_Nicegram..... idk if this is still going on Adam but I'm good. I appreciate the consideration.
I play without ESO plus and I’ll just admit that I end up deleting way more things than I should from my inventory. It’s just way too limited
Simple, don't play. I be upfront the game had me salty as heck trying to play I got to about champion 325 before I stopped. The number of convenience items and conve iences sold to you when I bought the game at 60$ at launch. It irked me. Paid 60$ to have to buy bank space, to pay a sub for a craft bag, for food. For scrolls, for fashion items. For inventory space. It frustrated the heck out of me. I'd have rather ed a wow style subscription without all the nickel and diming.
been playing for 2 weeks. already drop 200+$ on this game. now im at the point i will neither go + or quit. biggest problem is 2 of my friends that started the game with me both quit because of this bag bs, feel so bad to trash so many stuff that u know u might need later only to find out u do indeed need them
A question from a noob, Skyrim the best mod for me added voice to all notes and books you could find in the world. Is there anything like that for eso?
I do agree with this game being very annoying when it relates to inventory space UNLESS you pay for eso plus every month. other the that I very much enjoy eso, been playing eight yrs.
i stopped eso plus once i owned all the DLC, just buy new DLCs (cheaper than ESO+) and i just use merchant/decon/banker NPC companions for inventory.
I had a full inventory within like 12 minutes in Kinthari's Roost
How can a video game company charge its players a subscription fee and not allow them to have a more consequent inventory? It's the only mmo to do this kind of thing.
One of the biggest eso scam has to be eso+. The only useful thing here is the crap bag. They say it’s optional but it’s really forceful when every move you make in game gives you crafting mats which takes up all your inventory space in minutes. Other than that, what? DLC access that is no longer useful once you’ve already purchased everything? double bank space? Little to nothing Gold and exp bonus? Players should be getting way more than what is being offered. You could have just played subscription based mmos like wow and ffxiv.
The only thing that kept me in the game is my love for the tes franchise in general. My 3 months eso+ sub has just expired. I’m done.
i mean, cant you just completely ignore the crafting completely?
When I first started ESO I couldn't believe how much you can do without plus, wasn't used to it
Nice video, just realized I don't want to spend energy playing a inventory management game. This is BS
I think It is ZOS business model , you buy chapter on steam and you buy eso+ stacking material and use crown from eso+ to buy DLC . -=-
Very usefull indeed, also great video.
So, you can play the whole content without TESO plus?
I'd pay $60/yr for ESO Plus. Would've paid $300 upfront for 5 years of it in 2016-2017, but not now.
Waht about the story quest. I just need to know whether i need to buy eso plus or not?
There’s story quests everywhere main eso story quest is not tied in with eso plus
it sounds like a problem caused by design and thats an absolutely no-go.
waisting time to sorting inventory and to reshift materials into other material is also not respecting the time i have as a player...
what else am i missing?
Ty very informative
Best to get bank henchi, or special collectible, keep crafting loot there.
Don't pick up all food, but flour and inssa glass should be kept.
Best to loot urns rather than barrels, since urns sometimes have motiff's but barrels usually have rice or seaweed with my luck.
Watch out for white crafting items that are unusual or rare, you may want to save or at least stack in a storage tote.
You can get storage containers for home from tel var stones or writs, writs seem faster way, but not cheap.
In a Dungeon DO NOT auto loot everything, be selective and NOTICE: each dungeon may have a grey item trash around 9gold, but they stack so you may want to keep it till the end of the dungeon, and sell to merchant companion if you have to collect anything at the end.
People leave shortly after dungeon, but you can ask someone to stay or pull out merchant henchi and let people know, so they can sell a bit also.
what's the music in background ?
Make a small guild and use the guild bank for materials. How I done it in the past.
Can you do some video about builds, i think you miss this topic in last begginer video.
It be nice to some tips where you find real/working builds.
Like for solo , dungeons/trials and other stuff like stealing
I almost have a couple inn rooms with all my extra furniture in them
i will never uso plus i might as well buy dlc with that money
Very interesting.
Do you know how to get a refund on eso plus on pc?
I love ESO but I'd like it to come out for android or switch
I purchased eso plus but I still have dlcs I have to purchase?
Watch MalcolM's video titled "The Elder Scrolls Online - Bundles & Purchase Options" for a guide and explanation on how it works.
ESO is split into 3 categories
1) Base Game
2) Chapter
3) DLC
The base game of ESO (which comes with any version of the game) lets you have access to all of the original zones released in 2014 + Craglorn + Imperial City DLC + the first chapter (Morrowind)
If you buy the latest (chapter deluxe edition?) of the game then it lets you access the base game and gives you access to all currently made chapters
(as of february 2023 that includes Morrowind, Summerset, Elsweyr, Greymoor, Blackwood, High Isle)
While you have ESO+ it gives you access to every DLC and every chapter apart from the latest chapter (latest chapter currently is High Isle)
(as of february 2023 DLC includes Imperial City, Orsinium, Thieves Guild, Dark Brotherhood, Shadow of the Hist, Horns of the Reach, Clockwork City, Dragon Bones, Wolfhunter, Murkmire, Wrathstone, Scalebreaker, Dragonhold, Harrowstorm, Stonethorn, Markarth, Flames of Ambition, Waking Flame, Deadlands, Ascending Tide, Lost Depths, Firesong)
EDIT: You can also purchase individual DLC as an alternative to paying for ESO+. This is what I personally did and I'm happy with this route.
@@coffeeScryer To add to what you said, you can buy the DLC from crown sellers using in-game gold.
MY MAAAAAAAAN!!!
That y u don’t play it w/o 1
How about without ps plus
Yeah yeah I'll give you a like but turn down that f****** Bell that thing's way too loud especially when you got headphones on.
It's extremely hard without plus. Can't make money. Can't make money your gear is shit, can't store potions. You can play it but it starts to suck really quick. I played for 6 years and had 9 characters. They were full. Horses were full, chests were full and still needed space for every set I needed. Plus is a must if you play regularly.
you don't have to store sets anymore
Answer to the title question: Just dont
Maybe u dont play game, its b2p, p2p and p2w simunteusljy? Ofc its gr8 game, i have lot of fun playing, but its have no sense. Make tutorial how get best gear without buying dlc or eso+.
You have such a playback voice
The fact that a guide like this even needs to exist should say how truly optional ESO+ actually is
Zen, you have GOT to stop trying to get the best of both mobile AND actual MMOs from this game
That is what is going to be the real death of this game
lol no is just bc i got it on epic games for free
Just only play cyrodiil, zos will never care that you dont give them money, and you wont need craft bag because zos doesnt care about adding anything to pvp :>
You cant, you all welcome
LOL. You can though. I do on my alt accounts all the time and I'm not paying for plus on them.
@@wynngwynn its not 2012 and you have like 10 mule in Diablo 3, I do that and hate it, never again!!!
to be honest don't download the game even if it is free if you don't have the DLCs basically you will not play the game you will not have anything to do in the game you cannot follow any guides you cannot follow anything to do and no one can tell me else the video is helpful yes but for me it is just naive for people to play the game and the game tell you if you wanted to play it you need to pay money 100% you will need to pay to get the DLCs and no one can tell you else
thank you for the video it is actually good video